France: Sparks Across the Channel

For a man so insistent on having his own
sensibilities taken into account, Charles de Gaulle has a gargantuan
capacity for being indifferent to everyone else's. Last week, having
stood France's friends and neighbors on their ears, De Gaulle
triumphantly surveyed the scene for the benefit of some 120 newly
elected National Assembly Deputies in a reception at Elysée Palace.

De Gaulle, whose attitude toward economics is vague at best, loftily
explained to the Deputies why the U.S. wanted Britain in the Common
Market: "The Americans are giving away their products to the South
Americans, the Africans, and even the Arabs....